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Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by 0xFFC on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:04AM (#13712786)
The bottleneck is file system as far as I remember. I can compile my a linux kernel in VM with static file system in reasonable time. But try to do it in WSL, the file system overhead makes it miserable (Make and Configure open and close file extensively). other than that, ordinary computation is almost same as Desktop Linux (better than VM).

There was a benchmark on http://phoronix.com which proves my point.

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Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by ShinTakuya on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:30AM (#13713364)
Oh I get that, I mentioned the file system being the culprit elsewhere in the thread. Doesn't really change the point regardless, the gist of the matter is that until Windows fixes its filesystem it's much more efficient for me to run it in a VM than to use WSL.
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